Harvard Business Review Board Member's Handbook: How to Win Your Seat, Build Value, and Lead with Impact (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781647827571)

Dennis Carey is the vice chair of Korn Ferry, where he recruits board directors and chief executives and their direct reports. He has assessed and placed CEOs and directors for more than 75 companies in the Fortune 500. He has founded forums for board chairs, CEOs, and C-suite executives, including the Prium, the CEO Academy, and programs for CFOs and CHROs of America's largest enterprises. Dennis has published seven books, his three most recent being Talent, Strategy, Risk; Boards That Lead; and Talent Wins (all from Harvard Business Review Press). He has also published more than 50 refereed journal articles. Dennis teaches in a program on corporate governance at the Wharton School, and he has served on two public company boards and three private boards in technology, health care, and materials science. He also served on the board of the International Swimming Hall of Fame and he became the 31st American to swim the English Channel.

Michael Useem is the faculty director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management and McNulty Leadership Program, as well as the William and Jacalyn Egan Professor Emeritus of Management, at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He works on leadership development, general management, and corporate governance with companies and organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, and he has served on the boards of for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Mike is the author of The Leader's Checklist; The Leadership Moment; Executive Defense; Investor Capitalism; Leading Up; The Go Point; and The Edge. He is also the coauthor and coeditor of Learning from Catastrophes and the coauthor of The India Way; Leadership Dispatches; Boards That Lead; The Strategic Leader's Roadmap; Fortune Makers; and Mastering Catastrophic Risk.

Maggie Wilderotter is the former executive chair of Frontier Communications, one of the nation's largest broadband, video, and voice companies. She served as chair and CEO from 2006 to 2015 and as executive chairman in 2015-2016. She previously served as senior vice president of business strategy and oversaw the worldwide public sector at Microsoft. She has also served in executive roles with Wink Communications, AT&T, and McCaw Cellular Communications. Maggie has been on more than 10 private company boards and 30 public boards, including Costco Wholesale Corporation, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Juno Therapeutics, and Cadence Design Systems. She has been senior adviser to Blackstone and Atairos. She is a trustee of The Conference Board and served on former President Obama's Commission on Enhancing National Security. She is a member of the executive committee of Catalyst, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding opportunities for women in business, and she has served on the boards of Women in America, the Business Council, and the Committee of 200.